Exciting news!
SOMETIMES ORANGE IS ALMOST GOLD authored by Jim Antonini and Suzanne Reynolds and published by Pump Fake Press made the Independent Book Review’s list of The Best Books We Read in 2025.
See the below:
Here’s what the Independent Book Review had to say about SOMETIMES ORANGE IS ALMOST GOLD:
Hilarious, warmhearted, bite-sized stories of a cult softball team from West Virginia
“…a dash of the tall tale, the frenzied sports announcer, and the romantic writer who can memorialize the most insignificant moments, lift up failure, laugh at it, and love it…”
“…I’ve never read a book quite like this one. It has charm, wit, adventure, and a strange anthropologic intrigue. It is a record of a unique kind of community, one that centers around sports yet values friendship and joy above anything as commonplace and shallow as winning…”
“…it’s difficult not to get swept up in the mythology of this rambunctious team…”
“…an explosive array of photos of all shapes and sizes clustered on pages alongside ever-expanding paragraph-long game summaries, grabs the eye and invites readers to bounce from story to story…”
“…the book exudes a rules-be-damned attitude that emphasizes fun over any specific method for reading…”
“…there’s a special beauty to this book that comes from a sheer of-the-moment authenticity…”
See the link below for the entire review:
STARRED Book Review: Sometimes Orange Is Almost Gold by Jim Antonini and Suzanne Reynolds
The book is available at: Home – Jim Antonini an award-winning author from WV. or Sometimes Orange Is Almost Gold a book by Jim Antonini and Suzanne C Reynolds – Bookshop.org US or Sometimes Orange Is Almost Gold: Morgantown’s Misfits of the Diamond: Antonini, Jim, Reynolds, Suzanne C: 9798218530501: Amazon.com: Books